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Trump Orders Strikes on Syria Over Suspected Chemical Weapons Attack
The New York Slimes ^ | April 13, 2018 | HELENE COOPER, MICHAEL D. SHEAR and BEN HUBBARD

Posted on 04/13/2018 6:28:20 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum

WASHINGTON — The United States and European allies launched strikes against Syrian targets, President Trump announced on Friday, seeking to punish President Bashar al-Assad for a suspected chemical attack near Damascus that killed more than 40 people.

Mr. Trump said Britain and France had joined the United States in the strikes, which he said were underway.

“These are not the actions of a man. They are crimes of a monster instead,” Mr. Trump, in a televised nighttime address from the White House Diplomatic Room, said of the Syrian attacks last weekend that he blamed on Mr. Assad.

He said the strikes of precision weapons sought to deter the production, spread and use of chemical weapons, which he called “a vital national security interest of the United States.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: paulin2020; wmd; youarelate
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To: Liberal Anti Venom

ROFLMAO!!!


61 posted on 04/13/2018 8:26:12 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: Celerity

When you spend a gazillion dollars a year on the military, SOME of it’s gotta go to great weapons :)

I read that some military big shot said one aircraft carrier fleet could defeat the entire Chinese navy

Or maybe I was drunk that day too :)

I thin though, that are biggest problems are not another country’s military.

Maybe internal terrorism, the debt, the entire left, the mueller appointed as dictator for life in regards to hounding Trump...


62 posted on 04/13/2018 8:32:02 PM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: null and void

Guess we’ll see how this thing shakes out....


63 posted on 04/13/2018 8:35:32 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: fortheDeclaration

Not at all likely. they said they would shoot down our missiles. They did not. Loss of face in that part of the world is very hard to overcome.


64 posted on 04/13/2018 8:36:38 PM PDT by Midwesterner53
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

If it weren’t clearly just a face saving strike of no real consequence, I’d be quite upset about it.


65 posted on 04/13/2018 10:26:51 PM PDT by thoughtomator (Number of arrested coup conspirators to date: 0)
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To: bigdaddy45; RCFlyer; fieldmarshaldj

I can imagine how much more time I waste here if there was a such a feature! ;p


66 posted on 04/14/2018 12:23:40 AM PDT by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Yeah - much better to let himself be duped by Putin and Assad.....how does your info sourcing compare to Trump’s?


67 posted on 04/14/2018 5:25:35 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: JBW1949; E. Pluribus Unum

JBW1949, thank you for correcting, in your post 67, my faulty memory that the “Baby Milk Factory” sign was done during an Operation Desert Storm attack on Baghdad in 1991.


68 posted on 04/14/2018 6:36:41 AM PDT by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

No problem...


69 posted on 04/14/2018 6:41:53 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: trebb

I always ask myself “What would Hilary do?”

So what would she do that would be different?


70 posted on 04/14/2018 6:59:43 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (<img src="http://i.imgur.com/WukZwJP.gif" width=800>https://i.imgur.com/zXSEP5Z.gif)
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To: Electric Graffiti
What am I missing?

The differences for the President in being more often able to affect events internationally as opposed to domestically.

71 posted on 04/14/2018 7:19:07 AM PDT by onedoug
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

She’d side with Russia fro personal profit and gain....


72 posted on 04/14/2018 10:19:33 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrites who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: corlorde

book mark


73 posted on 04/16/2018 11:14:59 AM PDT by edzo4 (Thank Q very much!!!)
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